Alternate Track Course Clusters

Students pursuing the alternate track to fulfill the foreign language requirement must choose one of the following clusters at the time of petitioning. Required: 2 courses from the same regional cluster or 1 semester of study in the region and 1 class from the same region cluster. Changes to your program must be approved by the Academic Standing Committee. Students should contact the Center for Student Success with questions about the eligibility of courses not listed below.

Courses offered 2025-26 Academic Year

Table of Contents

  1. African Cluster
  2. Ancient/Classics Cluster
  3. Asian Cluster
  4. European Cluster
  5. Latin American/Caribbean Cluster

Key to symbols

Courses offered 2025-26 Academic Year

SymbolMeaning
* Offered in Fall 2025 Only
** Offered in Spring 2026 Only
***

Offered in both Fall and Spring Semesters

+

Indicates the course has a pre-requisite or enrollment limits

African Cluster

Course CodeCourse Name
*AFS 131 Introduction to African Studies
**AFS 246 Human Rights Policy in the Caribbean
AFS 250 Topic: Vodou in the Diaspora
*AFS/Music 251 Topic: Alter Egos and Black Feminism
+AFS/Econ 256 African Economic History and Development
**AFS/Hist 262 Africa: Fiction, History, Memory
*AFS/Hist 272 African Hist. & Society from 1880
+AFS/Music 318 Africana Music: Juju to Hip-Hop
*AFS/Hist 373 Hist Sub Sahara Africa in 20th Cent
**Art History 240 Arts of African Diaspora
**Hist 103 Europe, Africa, and Asia: 1750–1900
*Hist 208 Islamic History 600–1500
Hist 271 African History and Society to 1880
Hist 371 Modern African Environments: History, Ecology and People
***Music 102 Cultural Perspectives on Music
**Phil 240 World Philosophy
**Rel 270 Introduction to Islam
Rel 272 Islam in the Modern World

One semester of study in Africa

Ancient/Classics Cluster

Course CodeCourse Name
+*Art History/Classics 201 Arts of Ancient Greece & Rome
*Classics 103 Gods & Heroes, Death & Desire: Great Books of Ancient Greece & Rome
Classics 122 Survey of Roman Civilization
**Classics 130 Classical Mythology
+Classics/ANTH 210 Civilizing the Barbarians?
+**Classics/ANTH 214 Celts: Ancient and Modern
Classics/WGS 240/340 Gender & Sexuality in Ancient Greece
Classics 251 Greek History
Classics/Hist 252 Roman History
Classics/ANTH 255 The Ancient Mediterranean: Trade, Art, and Colonial Encounters
**Classics 264 Ancient Tragedy
Classics 280 Constructions of Race in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Their Legacy
+*Classics/ANTH 345 Inequality in the Ancient World
*Classics/Phil 205 Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
**Rel 205 Hist, Lit, Rel of New Testament
**Rel 267 Medieval Christianity in the West

One semester of study in Athens, Florence, or Rome

Asian Cluster

Course CodeCourse Name
+**Anth/AS 229/329 Tourism and Culture in China
**Art History/AS 131 Introduction to Asian Art
Art History/AS 234 Art of China
Art History/AS 235 Chinese Painting and Aesthetics
**AS 110 Japanese Culture & Society
**AS 111 Chinese Culture & Society
AS 115 Race, Power and Sex
*AS 227/327 Folktales and Fairy Tales
**AS 242/324 Real & Imagined: Past, Present, & Future Japanese Heroes
AS 253/353/REL 253 Japanese Rel., Myth, Folklore in Visual Media
*AS 247 What is REAL? Extraordinary Fiction in Japan and the World
AS 255/355 Coming of Age in East Asian Literature & Film
*CIMS 284 Arab Film
+**Hist 103 Europe, Asia, Africa: 1750–1900
*Hist 208 Islamic History 600–1500
Hist 222 East Asia from 1800
Hist 223 Modern China
*Hist 224 Modern Japan
+Hist 325 Tokugawa Japan: 16th–19th Century
+Hist 330 Ottoman Empire: 1300–1923
**Music 102 World Music
Phil 216 Classical Chinese Philosophy
**Phil 240 World Philosophy
+*Phil 366 TOPIC: Zhuangzi
Rel 247 Introduction to Religions of South Asia
**Rel 270 Introduction to Islam
**Rel 272 Islam in the Modern World
Rel 362 Violence/Nonviolence: Global Perspectives
Soc 243 Chinese Diaspora

One semester of study in Asia

European Cluster

Course CodeCourse Name
***Art History 125 Survey of Western Art
+*Art History/Classics 201 Arts of Ancient Greece & Rome
+**Art History 202 Medieval Art
+*Art History 210 20th Century European Painting
+Art History 303 Art of the Italian Renaissance
+*Art History 307 Baroque Art Caravaggio and Vermeer
*GER/CIMS 235 The Holocaust through Film
*GER/CIMS 259 Gaming, Why We Play
**GER 269 Colonialism as a European Project
*GER/CIMS 274 Nazi Cinema: Propaganda and Film
**GER 275 Science & Fiction
+*Hist 105 Age of Discovery
Hist 207 The Spanish Inquisition
Hist 216 Modern Russia and the Soviet Union
*Hist 218 Modern Germany
+Hist 311 Medieval Europe
+Hist 313 Renaissance and Reformation
+Hist 314 Early Modern Europe: 1555–1750
+*Hist 316 Transformation in 19th Century Europe
*Hist 318 Europe 1914–1945
+**Hist 319 Europe since 1945
+*IDIS 350/Phil 366 Topic(s): Marx’s Capital
Italian 250 Modern Italy: 1860–Present
Italian 260 Italian Culture
Italian 275 Dante’s Comedy: The Poem, The Pilgrim, The Prophet
Italian 285 Italy in World War II: Cinema and Novel
***Music 101 Intro to Music Listening
+**Music 210 Musicology I
+*Music 211 Musicology II
Phil 207 Early Modern European Philosophy
**Phil 208 Kant and 19th Century European Philosophy
+Pol 262 European Union Politics
+Pol 304 Topics in Comparative Politics
Europe and the EU
Issues in Middle East Politics
Comparative Public Policy
European Political Parties
Politics Global Regions: Europe
Comparative Civil – Military
Politics of Sexuality
Controversies - Pol of Europe

One semester of study in Europe (Does not include Ireland or UK).

Latin America/Caribbean Cluster

Course CodeCourse Name
*AFS 132 Intro to Caribbean Studies
AFS 236/LAS 223 Mapping Caribbean Identities
**Hist 206 Spain and the New World
Hist 260/360 Topics in Latin American History
**LAS 140 Introduction to Latin America: Social Sciences
LAS 147 Introduction to Latin American Cultural Studies
LAS/Anth 232 Precolumbian Civilizations of Mesoamerica
**LAS/Music 251 TOPICS: Music of Latin America. Music of the Caribbean
*LAS/Hist 261 Colonial Latin American History
**LAS/Soc/PP 262 Social Development in Latin America
**LAS 263/Hist 262 Modern Latin American History
**LAS 276 Social & Political Problems: The Case of Mexico
LAS 300 Topics in Latin American Studies
+*LAS/Soc 331 Reinventing Latin American Societies
**Music 102 World Music
**Music 215 Music of Latin America
**Music/LAS 251 TOPIC: Music of Latin America
Phil 215 Latin American & Caribbean Philosophy
Rel 226 Native American Religious Traditions
Soc 102 Intro to Soc: Spec Focus-Film
Soc/LAS 231/331 Political Sociology of Latin America
Soc/LAS/PP 267 Politics and Society in Latin America: The Case of the Dominican Republic
Soc/LAS/PP 276 Social and Political Problems: The Case of Mexico

One semester of study in Latin America/The Caribbean.